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Until a few days ago, I was sure that next week I would be celebrating closing Hexa Scale’s first deal. Well, that won’t happen. Sudden changes to the business made our operation much riskier, and the realization that we would have to pull out came as a huge blow. But like always in entrepreneurship, the setbacks offer the best opportunities, and we learned quite a few lessons: 🎯 Vertical software is an amazing match for Hexa Scale. More on that in a future post. 💵 Hexa Scale thesis resonates extremely well with investors. VC is attracting less capital, and big PE isn’t in the best shape either, but our transformation thesis VC x PE has tremendous investor traction. 🤠 Lots of great entrepreneurs are ready to become late co-founders and jump on board. 🧘♂️ Until it’s done it’s never done. Even if you know that a deal is never done until closed, even if you’ve already lived it multiple times, it’s still a huge pain. We have to manage our expectations. 🤓 Keep it simple. And wooh, that’s hard. Deal-making is complex by nature, especially M&A. It's easy to over-engineer solutions, focusing on avoiding edge cases and optimizing every scenario. Work hard to keep it simple. Our success depends on how fast we can learn, but deal-making has long cycles. It takes multiple months to do a deal, and multiple years to see your impact. It reminds me of hardware vs. software: iterating fast in hardware is by design more challenging. The obvious solution: we have to be more ambitious, do many more deals in parallel, and ultimately grow our operations accordingly. As Socrates puts it, I know that I know nothing… and that we’re gonna crack it with Samuel Boggio Quentin Nickmans Thibaud Elziere Amaury Sepulchre Alexis Vilette Grégoire Jouffroy⚡

Selling work ✅ not software ❌ We believe the opportunity to build the next great companies in AI lies in this principle. As our very own Quentin Nickmans explains in his latest blog post, it's not just about assisting humans to become more productive; it's about having the AI itself produce work. Our focus is on creating companies that will train AI to perform time-consuming work, freeing people to focus on activities that carry real value. Crucially, this work must be specific. For AI to reach human-level accuracy, it needs to be trained on deep, niche sets of data. At Hexa AI, led by Florent Quinti, our goal is to create a new era of highly specialized AI agents. Read our full thesis: https://lnkd.in/geBTw-Ty 🚨 Flo is seeking a duo to co-found our next project: a phone-answering AI agent specialized in a profession crying out for it. If you’re interested, reach out!

🥁 Revealing Hexa Health’s first startup… Annette: The weight loss journey designed to be your last, founded by Francois-Xavier TRANCART and Gwen Le Calvez. By 2030, it’s estimated that half of the population will be affected by obesity, yet we’re still struggling to find a solution that works for everyone. That’s because there isn’t one. Every*body* is different, and their weight loss programs should be too. Someone’s weight is the result of so many factors. It takes a team of experts examining the big picture — mental health, sleep, nutrition… — to figure out the best course of action and then consistently supporting them to follow through. Centralized on their app, this is what Annette does. By providing users with: 💙 A personal coach/dietician available for appointments and daily catch-ups 🧑⚕️ A team of medical experts (mental health, sleep, exercise) for specific guidance 🔬 Treatment innovations such as Wegovy, on a case-by-case basis, if eligible... Annette supports, guides, and advises users at every step of their weight loss journey, to reach their goals in a way that lasts. It’s not just a question of calories, willpower, or genetics. Above all, it’s about support. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, you can sign up to the waitlist on their website. P.S. FX and Gwen are already looking for people to join them on their quest to change how the world treats weight across several roles! Both links in the comments 👇 Julien MERAUD Dr Guillaume Gobert Gautier Mignot Médéric Manière

💊 Insomnia is a widespread issue, but we're still relying on sleeping pills. Isn't it time for a change? At Hexa Health, we’re launching SleepX to tackle this head-on, especially for women who are disproportionately affected by sleep problems. Our aim is to make Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi) accessible and affordable, using the power of AI alongside expert human guidance. This means no more exorbitant costs, long wait times, or insurance battles. Julien MERAUD, partner at Hexa Health, is on the lookout for a CEO, CTO, and Medical Director, who want to make a real impact within sleep care, to bring this vision to life. Link to apply in comments ⬇️

👋 La première version du GTM Record Center est disponible ⬇️ 👉 J'ai collecté et analysé les meilleures expérimentations GTM sur les dernières années. Pour cette première version : 27 expérimentations dont des guides, des communautés, des outils gratuits, des templates etc... ⭐️ En early-stage c'est important de multiplier le nombre de petites expérimentations plutôt que de se focaliser sur une grande (dilution du risque, multiplication des canaux). C'est mon avis. 👉 Lancer des leads magnets sur Linkedin, en ads, en Outbound c'est exactement comme créer des réels, shorts, Tiktok en B2C. C'est asseoir une expertise, construire une audience/communauté et puiser dans celle ci pour attirer des prospects. 👀 On pense souvent que le ROI est long terme dans la production de contenu mais sur des contenus à forte valeur ajoutée + une stratégie de lancement et revival (et moins statiques que des articles de blogs par exemple) le ROI peut s'avérer être immédiat. Je vais régulièrement mettre à jour la bibliothèque avec vos suggestions et mes dernières trouvailles. Très preneur si vous avez des avis tranchés sur la question. Voici le lien pour y accéder (pas besoin de mettre d'email 😆) : https://lnkd.in/gXAmVcfR

😔 If you haven’t had a chance yet to visit Hexa in person… Our new Welcome to the Jungle page is the next best thing 😀 Get a feel for our core team ✅ Understand what it’s like to join a startup ✅ Experience our product/tech mindset in practice ✅ See photos of our offices from every angle ✅ Learn what the perks of Hexa life are ✅ Get an idea of how we tangibly create companies every day as a team ✅ … And lots more! Check it out in the link in comments

🕵️ It’s hard to get a feel for fundraising before you’re actually in it. This can be frustrating for founders who know they need to get it right but find that much of the learning happens along the way. One invaluable preparation, though, is hearing the stories of others who’ve been through it 👂 Listening to the concrete details of their experiences—how things panned out, the decisions they made, and the challenges they faced—provides helpful insights that can guide your own efforts. 🆕 This is where our new ‘Behind the Seed’ series comes in. Lifting the veil on the Seed fundraising process through candid interviews with our founders, they give all the details on their journeys, as well as tips on overcoming rejection, refining pitches, and more. We’re kicking off the series with Julien Bellemare, co-founder and CEO of Catalog (HX23). They released their not-so-minimal MVP, signed 10+ customers including Elitis and Babymoov Group, and then pulled it out of the bag with a $3M Seed fundraising led by LocalGlobe — all in an extremely tough market, all in 12 months. Get all the details on how they did it in the interview (link in comments) 👇

We’re so excited to reveal the newest startup within our portfolio: meet Tandem 🚲 Cofounded by Christophe Barre (CEO) and Manuel Darcemont (CTO), Tandem is designed to help your users get the most out of your product, effortlessly. An AI-powered personal assistant that lives within apps, it guides users to effortlessly discover, set up, and utilize the features they need, on screen - just like a human would. High churn and drop-off rates plague SaaS tools because teams lack the time and resources to deeply understand and cater to all their users' needs. The result is a great product, but it's underused because its full value remains hidden. Enter Tandem. This innovative AI copilot: 🤓 Understands and guides users within your app 💡 Suggests the best features at the best times 🧑🏫 Explains functionalities, assists users, and even performs tasks to get them started Tandem is there for users, showing up in the exact way they need, whether its their first or one-thousandth day using your product. Only 2-10% of a product's user base are power users. Tandem's goal is to bring that number to 100%. To find out more and get a demo, visit their website (link in comments). Florent Quinti Pierre Lemaire Médéric Manière

At Hexa, we’re on a mission to revolutionize non-dilutive financing 💸 Matthieu Vaxelaire and the team are joining forces with Cyril Fougères, who has a background at BPI and has successfully built and sold his own non-dilutive financing consultancy, and Aurélien Sibiril, seasoned CTO and serial entrepreneur. Together, they’re creating a cutting-edge tool to simplify non-dilutive funding applications, making the process faster, easier, and more competitive. The ultimate goal: to help businesses secure more public funding and become the leading player in business financing. With a dream team and a huge market opportunity, the project is ready to launch. To get started, they’re offering a special deal to help 5 entrepreneurs secure their funding. If: ✅ You're a startup from pre-seed to Series B ✅ You've just closed or are about to close your funding round ✅ And you’re looking for non-dilutive funding (BPI, CIR, JEI, CII, bank loans) ☎️ Fill out the form in the first comment so we can connect ASAP. And feel free to share the form with entrepreneurs in your network!